Glass 2025-12-01 11:15 p.m.Kavanagh: "The trial court then signed a judgment in open court granting Kavanagh's injunction to prevent Hebron from taking and holding public office in January 2019."
Touchet: "After reviewing the record and the applicable law, we hold an automatic first offender pardon does not restore a felon's right to run for public office under La. Const, art. I, § 10(B)(1)."
Singer: "On the record before us, there is no indication that the request for a court-ordered stay of the election has received federal approval pursuant to § 5.
While I share the angst expressed in Justice Houston's dissenting opinion, criticism of the result in this case should, I respectfully submit, be directed to Congress.
I would grant the second remedy requested by the plaintiffs and nullify the Ward 1 election and delay a second election to fill the Ward 1 council seat until the City has obtained preclearance from the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. The very idea that this Court by its opinion deprives 101 registered voters, who voted, of their right to vote to keep from doing violence to § 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, offends my sense of truth, justice, and the American way."